Are we also going to see a kinder, gentler IMF' Maybe so: here is Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn worrying about the consequences of increased inequality and calling for a 'new globalization for a new world – a globalization with a human face, where people come first, and where growth and equity always go together...the invisible hand must not become the invisible fist.'

This weeks links examine the regional reverberations of President Trump's executive orders on immigration and NGO funding, the IMF report on the PNG economy the PNG government wanted delayed, and an award-winning Solomon Islands filmmaker.